As the owner of a furniture moving company you require physically fit workers.The average weight of your workers is 240 pounds.You designed a special incentive program to encourage employees to lose weight.Three hundred dollars was given to the employee who lost the most weight over a three month period.The winner dropped thirty-five pounds but gained it all back to compete again in the competition.This example demonstrates which type of reward problem?
A) Failure to produce desired behaviour
B) Production of desired behaviour and undesirable consequences
C) Production of reward dissatisfaction
D) Unfair compensation practices

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The incentive program did produce the desired behavior of weight loss initially, but the undesirable consequence was that the winner gained all the weight back to compete again. This can be seen as a problem of producing desired behavior and undesirable consequences.

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